Research

Publication

1. Dhingra, S., Huang, H., Ottaviano, G., Paulo Pessoa, J., Sampson, T. and Van Reenen, J., 2017. The costs and benefits of leaving the EU: trade effects. Economic Policy, 32(92), pp.651-705.  - Media Coverage: VoxEU, The Economist, The Times, and The Telegraph

2. Chen, X., Huang, H., Ju, J., Sun, R., and Zhang., J. Impact of vaccination on the COVID-19 pandemic in U.S. states. Sci Rep 12, 1554 (2022). 

3. Ge, C., Huang, H., Wang, Z., Jiang, J., & Liu, C. (2022). Working from home and firm resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Operations Management, 1–27. 

4. Dhingra, S., Freeman, R. and Huang, H. (2023), The Impact of Non-tariff Barriers on Trade and Welfare. Economica, 90: 140-177.                                                                               

Working Papers   

1.  Germs, Roads and Trade: Theory and Evidence on the Value of Diversification in Global Sourcing - Media Coverage: RES Media Briefings, Quartz 

2.  Accounting for the Evolution of China’s Production and Trade Patterns (with Jiandong Ju and Vivian Yue).  

3. Pandemics, Global Supply Chains and Local Labor Demand: Evidence from 100 Million Posted Jobs in China (with Hanming Fang, Chunmian Ge, and Hongbin Li) - Media Coverage: VoxChina 

4. Endogenous Mobility in Pandemics: Theory and Evidence from the United States(with Xiao Chen, Jiandong Ju, Ruoyan Sun, and Jialiang Zhang) . 

5.  Revealing Ricardian Comparative Advantage with Micro and Macro Data (with Gianmarco Ottaviano).

6. Price Discrimination, Backhaul Problems, and Trade Costs: Theory and Evidence from E-commerce Delivery (with Chunmian Ge, Chang Liu, and Wenji Xu)

Work in Progress

1. Firm Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in Global Production Networks (with  Kalina Manova, Oscar Perello, and Frank Pisch)

2. The Political Economy of Trade and Pollution: Evidence from China’s World Market Integration (with Stefano Carattini and Frank Pisch ) 

3. Remittances from Southeast Asia to China in the 20th Century: Evidence from 70,000 Letters (with Phacharaphorn Phanomvan)  [slides] [The Letters, Documentary ]

4. Economic Disintegration and Multinational Production: Evidence from Brexit (with Tatsuro Senga, Catherine Thomas, Hongyong Zhang) (preliminary draft)

5. Are Dams Good for Trade? (with Yu-Hsiang Lei and Yan Lei)

Policy reports

1. Disunited Kingdom? Brexit, trade and Scottish independence (with T. Sampson and P. Schneider). - Media Coverage: Bloomberg, FT, Independent, Reuters, Telegraph,  The Economist, The Week, and VoxEU

2. The economic impact of Boris Johnson’s Brexit proposals (with M Bevington, A Menon, J Portes, J Rutter, T Sampson).

Research Grants

1. Hong Kong Research Grant Council. GRF 11503222, PI. (532k HKD, 2023 - 2025).

2. Hong Kong Research Grant Council. GRF 11501121, PI. (534k HKD, 2022 - 2024).

3. Hong Kong Research Grant Council. ECS 21504720, PI.(532k HKD, 2021 - 2022). 

4. City University of Hong Kong. Startup grant, PI. (400k HKD, 2021 - 2023). 

5. Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research Grant (250k THB, co-PI Phacharaphorn Phanomvan, 2018-2019).